精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Chapter 1:Introduction1、Linguistics(语言学) is generally defined as the scientific study of language.(to observe and collect language factsformulates some hypotheses about the language structurefully prove their validity)2、Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication(语言是一套用于人类交流的任意的口语系统).3、General linguistics(通用语言学):the study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics.4、Phonetics(语言学),morphology(音位),syntax(形态),semantics(句